The peace movement? Same old song and dance
By Lisa Fabrizio
web posted October 3, 2005
What do modern war protesters want? In the Viet Nam War
era, they clearly favored the Communist way of life to our own
-- not for themselves so much mind you, but for the millions we'd
have freed had not they and their media accomplices forced a
political end to what would have been a military victory.
Recently I wrote of the left's hypocritical claim of supporting the
troops while decrying both their method and their mission. As if
we needed further proof of the real aim of those using dead
soldiers to protest our actions in the War on Terror, the
communists have officially checked in. Their goal, as always, is
to work for the defeat of American interests.
The term "useful idiots" was used during the Cold War to
describe unwitting dupes of the Soviet Union and its Communist
Party. During the Vietnam War era, the American 'peace
movement', in their desire to aid the Party, prolonged that war by
giving hope to the bedraggled North Vietnamese Army, causing
the further deaths of US soldiers. Said former NVA Colonel Bui
Tin:
"Every day our leadership would listen to world news over the
radio at 9 a.m. to follow the growth of the American antiwar
movement. Visits to Hanoi by people like Jane Fonda, and
former Attorney General Ramsey Clark and ministers gave us
confidence that we should hold on in the face of battlefield
reverses. We were elated when Jane Fonda, wearing a red
Vietnamese dress, said at a press conference that she was
ashamed of American actions in the war and that she would
struggle along with us."
Today, though the political and economic theories of Lenin and
Marx lie crushed beneath the ashes of millions of souls who
perished under their tender ministration, their American wing
continues to thrive and promotes an ideology banished to the ash
heap of history. Just as the NVA could not have defeated us on
the battlefield, they know also that we will eventually crush al-
Qaida and friends. And so comes another 'peace' movement.
As they did during Vietnam, the far left couches their anti-
Americanism in a raft of crocodile tears. They are now
campaigning to discourage Hispanics from speaking to military
recruiters so they won't end up as "cannon fodder." Even though
the statistics show that the percentage of Hispanic military
recruits is under-representative of their population of the country,
this doesn't stop the radical left as they target minorities for "help"
to keep them despondent, dependent and Democrats.
Of course it would never occur to these 'military-supporting'
leftists that Hispanics love this country just as much as other
Americans and would lay down their lives to protect her. So
while the left still cries that minorities are under-represented in
nearly all walks of life, they think there are too many in the most
crucial job of all; protecting the American people.
The leading organization behind this latest campaign is called
Latinos for Peace, a gang of -- surprise, surprise -- Vietnam
War era radicals. Chief among them is Rosalio Munoz, a
member of the Communist Party USA and a contributor to its
house organ, People's Weekly World.
CPUSA was funded by the Soviets from its founding in 1919
until the collapse of the USSR in the nineties. One of their linked
affiliates is United for Peace and Justice, a group headed by
Fidel Castro aficionado and longtime communists, Leslie Cagan.
UFPJ's member groups include all your favorite current 'peace'
activists including Cindy Sheehan's Code Pink pals and
Moveon.org, who claim to 'own' the Democratic Party.
So once again the circle is complete. Today's peace movement is
a pathetic rehash of the same anti-Americanism that lead to the
deaths of millions after our ignoble abandonment of the people of
Southeast Asia. And once again they are tied inexorably with the
left wing of the Democratic Party.
The difference this time is that although these groups continue to
wave the banner of a failed ideology, they are giving aid and
comfort to a more insidious den of vipers; one that will not
hesitate to slaughter even those who agree that the United States
is indeed the great Satan.
Lisa Fabrizio is a columnist who hails from Connecticut. You
may write her at mailbox@lisafab.com.
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